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Researcher · Southwest Research Institute · United States

David A. Ferrill

David A. Ferrill publishes mostly in Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes and Geology, on topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-3486-5526 OpenAlex
World rank
#99,054
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#43,353
of 358,040
Works
37
Citations
318
Citations per work
8.6

What does David A. Ferrill research?

Geophysics: 45.7%Earth-Surface Processes: 8.7%Geology: 8.7%Mechanics of Materials: 6.5%other fields: 30.4%46%top field
Geophysics45.7%Earth-Surface Processes8.7%Geology8.7%Mechanics of Materials6.5%other fields30.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geophysics46% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes9% of their works
  3. 3Geology9% of their works
  4. 4Mechanics of Materials6% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Geochemistry and Petrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David A. Ferrill's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Plate Tectonics, Tectonics, Earthquakes, Subduction, Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Geochronology and Zircon.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Plate Tectonics82 topics
  2. Tectonics82 topics
  3. Earthquakes71 topic
  4. Subduction71 topic
  5. Full-Waveform Tomography61 topic
  6. Seismic Waveform Inversion61 topic
  7. Geochronology51 topic
  8. Zircon51 topic
  9. Cenozoic Evolution31 topic
  10. Fluvial Systems31 topic
  11. Rifting31 topic
  12. Sedimentation31 topic
  13. Geological Modeling21 topic
  14. Pore Structure21 topic
  15. Seismic Noise21 topic
  16. Shale Gas21 topic
  17. Tomography21 topic
  18. Uncertainty Analysis21 topic

Where does David A. Ferrill work?

David A. Ferrill's main affiliation in the publication record is Southwest Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does David A. Ferrill have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 318 citations for David A. Ferrill, ranking #99,054 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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